Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1997-11-28
Nucl.Phys. B528 (1998) 73-94
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Expanded discussion of rational un-orientifolds. Comments on disconnected components of type I moduli spaces. Several referenc
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00403-9
We show that various disconnected components of the moduli space of superstring vacua with 16 supercharges admit a rationale in terms of BPS un-orientifolds, i.e. type I toroidal compactifications with constant non-vanishing but quantized vacuum expectation values of the NS-NS antisymmetric tensor. These include various heterotic vacua with reduced rank, known as CHL strings, and their dual type II (2,2) superstrings below D=6. Type I vacua without open strings allow for an interpretation of several disconnected components with N_V=10-D. An adiabatic argument relates these unconventional type I superstrings to type II (4,0) superstrings without D-branes. The latter are connected by U-duality below D=6 to type II (2,2) superstrings. We also comment on the relation between some of these vacua and compactifications of the putative M-theory on unorientable manifolds as well as F-theory vacua.
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